grand jeté
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of grand jeté
Borrowed into English from French around 1925–30
Example Sentences
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At Pacific Northwest Ballet on Friday night, the evening began with 11-year-old PNB School student Charlotte Smith, whose beaming smile and effortless grand jeté in the ballet’s opening solo moment spoke to a bright future.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023
In the sinewy 41-year-old ballet dancer’s telling, it wasn’t really such a grand jeté to exit the stage of an iconic opera house and enlist in the Ukrainian army.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022
If you graph the height of her head throughout a grand jeté, it resembles more of a plateau than a peaked parabola.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2015
In the movie Mr. Daldry flashed forward at the end to Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake,” with Adam Cooper as Billy in grown-up glory flying through a stupendous grand jeté in slow motion.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2010
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